Apparatus for loading manure or other materials.



No. 744,320. PATENTED NOV. 17, 1903.

W. FISCHER. APPARATUS FOR LOADING MANURE OR OTHER MATERIALS.

' APPLICATION FILED JAN. 31, 1903.

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To all whom it may concern/.1

UNITED STATES Patented November 17, 1903.

PATENT O FICE. r

WILIIELM riser-Inn, or .I-IALLE-ON-THESAALE, GERMANY APPARATUS'FOR LOADING MANURE OR OTHER MATERIALS.

SPECIFICATION forming part"of Letters Patent No. 744,320, dated November 17, 1903.

I Application filed anuary 31, 1903. Serial No. 141,263. (No model.)

Be it known that I, WILHELM FISCHER, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residing at I-lalle-on-the Saale, in 'the Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire, have invented certain new and useful .Improvementsin Apparatus for L'oadingManure 'or other Materials uponVehicles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for loading manure and other materials from the ground I upon'vehicles, and has for its object to pro vide an improved apparatus for this purpose.

With this object in view. the invention consists in the'improved construction, arrangement, and combination of'parts hereinafter fully described and afterward specifically claimed. i

I have illustrated my invention in the accompanying drawings, in whieh---' Figure 1 represents the apparatus in ele=. vationjn the act of loading from a pile upon the earth on one side upon a vehicle on the other side. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the apparatus. Fig. 3 is a detail viewshowing the constructionof theteeth or prongs. Fig. tis apartial top plan View of a modified construction. I, Y Like reference characters refer to the same parts in all the figures.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 1 indicates a truck upon which is mounted a base board or plate 2, which carries a motor 5 and trestle 6. The base-plate'is horizontally ad justable upon the'truck, either longitudinally or transversely, by any suitable means operated by cranks 3 and 4. -v

7 indicates the shaft of the motor, which ..passes through'the trestle and carries a sprocket-wheel ,8, which by means of a chain 9 drives a sprocket-wheel 1 0, mounted upon the shaft of a roller 11, which-is mounted at one end, and a similar roller- '12 at the,opposite end of a frame 13, mounted to tilt upon a shaft 21 substantially in line with the motor-shaft 7, said frame being loaded with a weight 20 at the end which is designed to be ground or pile of the material to be loaded. 1 Two endless chains 14 and 15 are mounted upon the roller 11 and-12, said chains being provided with teeth or prongs 1Q substam tiallyof the form of manure-forks, which in the form ofthe device shown in Fig. 2 are intended to take upa portion of the material from the pile without changing the positionssi of the teeth or of'the chains and carryit upward along the upper side of the frame of the chains to a point above the vehicle into which it is continuously dumped by the teeth or prongs turned downward when the chain rotates'aboutthe roller 10, as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. 4, however, I have a somewhat-modified form in which the teeth instead of projecting forward only are projected forward and inward, and the chains are so guided by a roller 17 that the teeth are caused .to ap-' proach and'grasp-a portion of the material at '7 the period when they are rotating'about the roller 12, The material thus grasped be tween the two chains ll and 15 is carried upward as before until the chains reach theroller 10, where they encounter two leading rollers 18, disposed below the plate 19, by means of which the chains are separated and, the teeth forced away from each other, so

that the material is released anddumped'into the vehicle.

carried up by the chains, the structure is ad.- justed by means of the cranks 3 and at to a Vhen all the materialin the pile has been I new position and brought into operation upo'n otherportionsof the pile of material.

. Having thus fully d'escribed my invention, what I claim to be new, and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent, is-'.

In an apparatus for-loading material into vehicles, thecombination with atilting frame,

of rollers mounted in the opposite ends thereof, two parallel endless chains around said rollers provided with teeth for engaging the material to be loaded, mean; at-the lower end of the frame to bring the chains together and cause the teeth to grasp the material, and means at the upper endofthe frame to separate the chainsand cause the teeth to release the material, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witncsses.

' WILIIELM FISCHER.

\Vitnesses:

MAX THIEME, EDUARD CLAUDYJ 

